10 Dumbest Decisions In Action Movie History
3. Tinkering With The Leftover Pieces Of The T-800 - Terminator 2: Judgment Day
The premise of the Terminator series is that in the future, a defense network called Skynet becomes sentient, realizes humans are pests, and starts a nuclear holocaust. A human resistance rises, led by a man named John Connor. Skynet sends a killer cyborg back in time to 1984 to kill John's mother, kickstarting the movie franchise.
Before the Terminator timeline was stretched out like Silly Putty by countless reboots, the story was that a company called Cyberdyne came into possession of a computer chip and robotic arm left over from the 1984 Terminator and, by 1991, had started reverse engineering it. Unfortunately, Cyberdyne's work with these gizmos would directly lead to Skynet coming to be, thereby ending life on Earth as we know it.
Much of the action in Terminator 2 involves finding and dealing with the scientist Miles Dyson, who was doing most of the work with these leftover parts. Dyson has a hard time letting go of the fact that the research he was doing was groundbreaking, even after finding out that his creations helped build Skynet and Terminators and cause nuclear annihilation.
Although he finally sees the light and helps our heroes to destroy the T-800 parts and his work, Miles and Cyberdyne should have just tossed these bits in the recycling bin.